the torch was there. you can a little child that you see don't need to go. run to see the colonel was her job as a retreat. the taliban take out another target on the or nato collaborators list as foreign troops begin withdrawing while leaving a questionable local force in charge. one while another is baled the murdoch media misconduct sees britain's most senior policeman quit while x. news international rebecca brooks is arrested. a cosmic companion for the hubble telescope as russia's own eye in the sky gets ready to seek out the secrets of our universe. european and start the week the week of mixed amid concerns of sovereign shock from the u.s. and europe will more in our business report in about twenty minutes.

eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie welcome to the program a senior advisor to the afghan president has been assassinated by the taliban in the capital kabul one of the country's lawmakers was also killed in the attack but ask on less than a week after karzai is half brother around the south of the country was gunned down the taliban is stepping up its assault on afghan officials as nato combat troops began there was draw from the war zone but u.s. intervention expert stephen lemmon says washington will wants to keep its grip on afghanistan because the raging war is lucrative. if. it grows it is. small security.

shamika i.c.m. you wouldn't last five minutes the resistance in a vanity fair want to liberate the country don't take any opportunity they came here to target anything in a level. not only under one hundred thousand u.s. troops oh thirty or forty thousand other troops there are way over a hundred thousand private security contractors you never lose discussed in the major media so combine forces way tomorrow private security forces may go when it's a thing of police america always those wars not just to win them but to wage them because the profits are so great the war profiteers love these wars waged ten billion dollars we know of told they are already told every month besides the regular affairs appropriations for all of your fans operations this is money they are already going to the war profiteers. analysts also say the violence in

afghanistan is being precipitated by local security forces which contain drug addicts and those connected to the taliban despite this nato began handing control over one of the country's thirty four provinces to the locals on sunday but there is concern there too divided untrained and ill equipped to fend off the insurgency by themselves jason model agra ports from kabul. there's confusion on the faces of the afghan army soldiers as a firefight unfolds on the other side of the wall looking for them this is the kabul military training center and the bullets being fired blanks the men here are halfway through a ten week program and the officers don't cut the many slack when it's over the be deployed eastern province one of afghanistan's most violent corners. but we must push them hard so they can perform under pressure day by day we're making progress the afghan national army has already come a long way it's rates have swollen to about one hundred seventy thousand troops

thanks to fresh waves of recruits attracted by higher wages and extra perks for soldiers and says they are all united in their desire to be back to tell a bunch of insurgency of age or ethnicity then in the army we are old brothers and we are all called by one mean god i think the call of duty is also struck a chord beyond able bodied males a first ever class of women soldiers has just graduated. and there's even the mujahideen unit made up of hardened veterans of the soviet you hard this is all good news to u.s. military planners who have set a two thousand and fourteen deadline to hand over security responsibilities to the afghans the afghan army enjoys a much better reputation of the police force is even featured races. but is the army takes greater responsibility for security around the country there are concerns that the quality of troops may be coming in the expense of quality for starters more than eighty percent of troops are literally a big problem with the ability to read maps and numbers can spell the difference

between life and death adding to the was there widespread drug use and desertions today roughly one in four combat soldiers quit their post critics also point out that the military leadership is made up of many rival ex warlords who still command loyalties along regional ethnic lines and could drag the country deeper into conflict as the u.s. begins to scale back its role as custodian this summer there are concerns that these divisions may flare up if i was not usual. in tunisia killing each other these people. are the two groups who can control. yet another obstacle for a young army that still has much to prove before it can still. called for to. the u.s. may be on the move from afghanistan but it's not going far it's next focus is neighboring pakistan which has long thorn in the side of the war on terror was insurgents they are often sabotaging nato supply lines are his military contributor

thinks the only way america can save face of status to work kendall it's ties. they u.s. congressman hunter warns that united states is seriously considering several options including the direct and kinetic intervention of the u.s. forces into pakistan to do decisively with the taliban and how we're going to network training camps which were the same that the united states were so actively helping and assisting pakistan to wage today and i saw a jihad in afghanistan using the same heading proxy force led trained by pakistani intelligence which was actively supported by their american partners what happens right now in afghanistan is neither war no peace in reality the american occupation he's completely bogged down and it's paralyzed somewhere in the twilight

zone between war and peace now the u.s. lawmakers facing a very serious dilemma on the one side they're eager to blackmail pakistan we have the united states military intervention on the other side they are acutely aware that the time has come for the united states to back up and go home from afghanistan and to be exposed to the accusations that american exit plan is just cut and run so the only face saving opportunity right now for the united states to leave afghanistan these to rebuild their credibility gap leave pakistan and to get a permission for u.s. forces to read deployment from afghanistan to pakistan the small plan which i introduced a couple of weeks ago could help the united states to avoid making the impression they'd just come out and run from afghanistan and on the other side it would mean they gave their respects widening day military hostilities from afghanistan to

pakistan and beyond. and a few minutes on r t the green card immigrants who are now seeing red after winning america's citizenship lottery are now being told no and their new lives tell you why. one of the last world war two era war crimes suspect is due to learn his fate we report from hungary. the resignations keep coming in the british newspaper phone hacking scandal now that the u.k.'s most senior police officer has quit serve paul stephenson was facing a growing backlash over hiring a former news of the world executive as an advisor it was later questioned about illicit phone tapping the axe police commissioner also took a swipe at the prime minister saying his choice of advisor was a worse decision namely former editor andy colson of rapid developments rebecca groups around the paper was arrested as part of an investigation she quit on friday

verdicts u.k. chief and is due to join him and his son james facing an ease on tuesday over an ethical reporting methods and police bribery media analyst fillery says paying off a service organization has been going on for years. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a ref they've been leaking they've been paid for telling people when celebrities have been arrested so actually manipulating the people is actually a practice it has become in trying now in my view as a result of the kind of brought everything so this would hardly be out of practice but i don't think it's going to deflect the opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and weed out those people who have been corrupted and different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a live hundred thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of

crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investing. these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this and meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were making them for drinks privately one even at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police look at the example that gives to officers down on the lines now you could well ask you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake but if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committees things that investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at

what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain it's it's shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. the timing our back a group's arrest is raising a few eyebrows former british intelligence officer and english eyes as it's more than a coincidence. it's very unusual to have someone that's close to the heart the heart of power in the u.k. being arrested but i suppose based on the prima factual evidence around this case it would be unavoidable for the police not with arrests having said out of course it is a very long journey from arrest to being charged to being put on trial into being convicted so i suppose i'd be more surprised if she were charged if this does proceed towards a legal hearing i have to say that i think is the timing of his arrest is very interesting because it's highly highly unusual for someone to be a prearranged arrest to turn themselves into a police station and go through the rest process on a sunday and of course is just two days before she was due to appear before the

committee so no way she's going to sort of get out of jail free card i can't possibly talk about this it is subject to legal proceedings so in a way i suppose one hundred slightly suspicious turn of mind one might think that the police taking this step at this stage. alone has no real remission and have to say too much and so would have so much about the leaks of the police service in london as well so it's very very interesting timing. the cruiser that sank it of all days due to be left at a later on monday once the vessel is moved off the side of what is one of the operations most difficult stages accounts to put the ship on an even keel resumed after a balancing sling ruptured on sunday the next task is just search the riverbed for fifteen missing victims and then raise the boat twenty meters to the surface investigators and relatives hope then that definitive answers can be found as to why the ship sank recovery crews say the work is complicated because the vessel is stuck in a silt at the bottom of it all the area went down in minutes leaving more than half

of the two hundred eight passengers with no chance to escape one of russia's worst ever water disasters. aarti dot com is closely following the recovery operation and has a bad ground to the tragedy so keep up to date there's also our you tube channel for all of our video reports of a selfish mission russia's north caucasus has been shaken by two deadly blasts in the chechen republic two policemen were killed and seven more injured when an explosion hit a special search operation in the mountainous region meanwhile an overnight blast in douglas down has left another two policemen dead and three people wounded at the roadside bomb detonated as a patrol car was driving through the city of space the blast also damaged a desk by disrupting the city's supplies early reports suggest that explosion was equivalent to six kills of t.n.t. we'll bring you more developments in the region as we get them. out of the last

remaining nazi war crimes suspects will soon learn his fate in a garion court ninety seven year old dorothy pirro is charged with the massacre killing civilian hostages in serbia he was discovered living in budapest in two thousand and six as one of the few left to stand trial for holocaust crimes sara first reports from hungary. it's been described as the world's most wanted nazi he stands accused of the participation in the notorious massacre in the city of no east side in one thousand nine hundred eighty one thousand two hundred jewish and serbian people were killed by hunger in forces the prosecution say that he's directly responsible for the justice thirty six people thirty thing with it in a lorry and driven away to be shot the courts already been adjourned he complained that he couldn't understand what was being said and the judge in the trial said that he wasn't sure other biscayne a was even fully aware of what was going on and

so an adjournment was cooled in order for him to receive a hearing and mental health assessment and be restarted in the verdict expected to be did it today that he's one of the last remaining suspected war criminals he was tried and convicted in one thousand nine hundred forty four but that through the action was washed off to the fascist government came into power in the same year the defense here is saying that according to hungary law you can't convict someone of the same offense twice the prosecution is saying but doesn't stand up as his previous acquittal was due to political considerations and not a key to evidence now just a few months ago in may we saw the trial of egon demean you come to an end and he was sentenced to five years and the prosecution in this case is said that they've been pushing for that prison sentence certainly going to be the verdict that they're hoping for today. so first reporting there also take a look at some other stories from around the world libyan rebels are carrying out

an assault on government forces in the eastern town of brega home to one of the country's biggest oil facilities nato has also been targeting procrit alfy forces in the area with days of intense bombardment the alliance is trying to muster support for the rebels who have suffered heavy losses in recent days and aviv made another defined speech at the weekend denying rumors he was leaving libya as he struggles to quell a months long revolt. more lethal clashes in syria this time between pro and anti-government protesters around thirty are thought to have died as she as the fighting worsened when people began using my arms against each other last week three supporters of president asad were kidnapped and killed and their dismembered bodies returned to their relatives the anti-government damask crags downs are thought to have killed over thirteen hundred people since they began in january. egyptian interim leaders have undertaken a massive government reshuffle after

a public anger over a slow post revolution reform most of the points are two relative newcomers who are not linked with the regime of hosni mubarak there are also conflicting reports about the else of president's health his lawyer says mubarak is in a coma which doctors do not. but as well as president has transferred some powers to his ministers while he returns to cuba for cancer treatment experts warned that this is health issues could seriously affect the political situation in the country. the problem here being that he's regina counseled a lot of internal and external opposition adversaries and notably funded and supported politically economically and eventually even militarily baby united states of america and the united states is clearly bent making its regina change policies which we are seeing now in north africa and in the middle east bring them

over to latin america show from i'm speaking from when i was in argentina i'm particularly concerned that hugo chavez's health problems move debilitate will weaken the present government in venezuela and that can be seen as an opportunity by the united states or rather by the global power elite that operate from the united states to promote routine change in venezuela and if it starts in venezuela it will no doubt spread to other countries notably libya at perhaps even argentina . now this is how the telescope has been a space watching workhorse for two lonely deputes but now it gets to share the job of revealing the universe's biggest mysteries of russian i in the sky is on its way to help out packing the sharpest tools in the galaxy i didn't raise enough and i wasn't a viking our cosmic hero has a stand to see. this is the moment a russian space scientists have been waiting for for decades the space observatory equipped with telescope a huge top and universe explore ation as an enormous i. see further and deeper than

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ones seven or telescope is more interesting than the hubble space telescope in terms of making new findings it's a very profound science that implies a high degree of relativity of the final result it's difficult to forecast anything here at home school it's of possible to monitor the emergence of new stars and galaxies in a radio frequency band to see how the whole pool some schools are going to some statistical data on the basis of which it will be possible to predict the dynamics of the moment and the universe and to understand where we have all come from is tweeting for us in the future in this respect this is a historical event which marks his return to space science. it can be tough getting a green card to live in america but average here a lock a few thousand randomly hit the jackpot or so they thought the courts ruled their latest lottery list just isn't arbitrary enough and is tearing out they were

grounds and bites are discouraged by its. hoping for a better life in america court from nigeria applied for the green card lottery he won or so it said in the letter that he received from the state department almost two weeks later the us voided the results of the lottery for some twenty two thousand people including it for what i want to latin for a fourth and a lottery. each year the u.s. state department grants green cards to some fifty thousand people from around the globe the lottery where the jackpot is the right to live and work in america isn't for ties this completely random the state department claims in this case there was a computer glitch and the results were not arbitrary a computer programming error caused more than ninety percent of the selectees to come from the first two days of the registration period the victims of the blunder

have joined in a class action suit against the u.s. state department and lost the court here has been struggling with the issue of randomness asking how could the result of the green card lottery not be random even if there had been a computer glitch as with a department claims one of the arguments is that even an error like that could produce a random result and the whole idea behind the green card lottery is that whoever you are whatever you do you can win it but this case could very well undermine that perception experts specializing in information technology say the decision of the state department as well as the court that dismissed the case defies simple logic rhonda means that if only records if all the tracks are on your cd player when you have to run you may get tracks three four and five and track twelve that's still run the state department has brought up intricate technical arguments to explain the blunder that thousands of its victims say they have the feeling that someone

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match here will you stay with us. and welcome to your r.t. business bulletin i met treasurer good to have you with us european banks start the week in a mixed mood most to relieve it passing the latest stress test but there are still wide open to sovereign shock from bad debt in the u.s. in europe investment analysts are those things that could open doors for russian writers. the german banks in particular were exposed to toxic assets in the united states. the german banks for example were exposed to iceland they had nineteen billion dollars of exposure to iceland. and the irish clients the english banks are also not feeling very well. the. u.s. banks are still suffering from their exposure to toxic assets so

within this area within the euro asian market the russian banks which has gone through the crisis relatively well are actually in a position with cash to go out and spend money and. relatively good assets in europe and so this purchase of my spurred by of international is a first step and we may see some of the commercial banks. following suit doing the same sort of thing. taking a look at the markets now oil is lower with investors concerned about a worsening debt crisis in europe may slow the economy and way on fuel demand. in asia the hang seng is slipped into the red in the last hour of trading it's earlier games were helped by a report showing home prices rose in china and china mainland stocks were higher while europe related stocks came under pressure japanese markets were closed for

a public holiday. here in moscow the markets open mics the r.t.s. is losing around two tenths of a percent while the nice x. is a tenth of a percent in the black. industrial output is speeding up in russia it grew almost six per cent in june year on year compared to four percent in may car production is a key driver with the sector benefiting from higher demand and investment activity will expect even faster growth in the coming months amid low interest rates and who would inflict. their peers russian tourists are happy to splash the cash abroad as much as splashing about on the beach citibank says holidaymakers spending outside the country grew twenty eight percent year on year to one hundred forty million dollars that's the highest level since two thousand and seven with russians mostly preferring to spend their vacation cash in the u.s. italy and great britain. general impression that russia has bonds back to pre-crisis the dinner impression the you know was

a particularly good range where the pretty much stable microeconomic situation in russia people feel more confident. and brings you up to date more business news coming your way in the next hour and any time at r.t. dot com slash business headlines are up next stay with us on our. culture is that so much given to each musician on the mark when libya is still in

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